NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX vs ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX and ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 230 MHz
56x more pipelines: 112 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 150 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 32 MB
4.4x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 366 MHz
113.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 454 vs 4

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 July 2008 vs 1 December 2001
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 230 MHz
Pipelines	112 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 366 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	454 vs 4

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

20x more texture fill rate: 560 MTexel / s vs 28 GTexel / s
2.8x lower typical power consumption: 27 Watt vs 75 Watt
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 103 vs 89

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	560 MTexel / s vs 28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	27 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	103 vs 89

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

454

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

103

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX	ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
PassMark - G3D Mark	454	4
PassMark - G2D Mark	89	103

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX	ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 7
Code name	G92	M7
Launch date	15 July 2008	1 December 2001
Launch price (MSRP)	$328.50
Place in performance rating	1347	1350
Price now	$328.50
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	2.78
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	230 MHz
CUDA cores per GPU	112
Floating-point performance	280 gflops
Gigaflops	420
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	112	2
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s	560 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	27 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	60 million
Boost clock speed		280 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Laptop size	large	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	7.0
OpenGL	3.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	366 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	64 / 128
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
PureVideo HD
SLI